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Retrofitting Bend for a Livable Future
Bend is growing fast and if we dont add more neighborhood gathering places and mini-downtowns in more parts of our city, our quality of life is at risk and we wont meet our climate goals. Cross-town traffic will get worse; kids, the elderly, low-income neighbors, walkers, and bikers will suffer; and our existing special places could get loved to death.
Overcoming this challenge requires reimagining aging strip malls and empty big box stores into a new network of vibrant, walkable, mixed-use mini-downtowns for shopping, gathering, and playing. What happens to the old Costco on the east side? At 10-acres, the old Costco site is about the size of downtown Bend!
Imagine if kids could walk to the grocery store, to school, and to the park all across our city - including far east, south and north? The wide, fast and unpleasant commercial corridors we've build in the past can be retrofitted to be livable, safe, kid-friendly and fun. New state planning requirements (called Climate Friendly Areas) are requiring Bend to focus on these areas, but how that happens depends on us.
Director of the Urban Design Master's program at Georgia Tech, Ellen Dunham-Jones has studied communities who have "retrofitted suburbia" and will share inspiring examples and key lessons learned to help us jumpstart this complicated but important work here in Bend.
Doors open at 6 pm for happy hour and networking. Lecture begins at 6:45 pm.
Tickets required due to limited capacity. Purchase tickets at the link below.
Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones, FCNU, is Director of the MS in Urban Design and host of the Redesigning Cities podcast at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is co-author with June Williamson of the award-winning Retrofitting Suburbia book series and her work has been featured in prominent media including The New York Times, TED, and NPR.
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LocationDeschutes Brewery - Mountain Room (View)
901 SW Simpson Avenue
Bend, OR 97702
United States
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The Mountain Room is on the 3rd floor and available by elevator. Contact Nicole Mardell, Administrator at buildingabetterbend@gmail.com with requests.
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